The death today (1/9/17) of Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
still leaves a gapping hole of his weak and pathetic handling of the sordid case of
priest Michael Hill in 1997 and will always be part of his damning legacy we suggest.
We did argue at the time that he should have resigned but of course cardinals don't
do this do they.

The Catholic church continues to have many sordid sexual scandals like this waiting
to be resolved with thousands of victims still seeking justice. Cardinal George Pell
and the catholic church's cover-up of child abuse in Australia is just one that will
be aired publicly in October at his trial this year.

Sadly so many priests like both of these men are still serving in this apostate church
and will continue to go their own unholy way all ending up on that wide road "that
leadeth to destruction" (Matthew 7:13). We urge all Catholics and clergy to renounce
the wicked church of Rome and become born again. Our current Bible tract and banner
warns that "except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish" (Luke 13:3).

In an interview Murphy-O’Connor gave to a London
newspaper a decade before his death he touched on the appalling decision
by the Blair Government to coerce Catholic adoption agencies to place Catholic children
to enquiring homosexual couples; he claimed that he would shut down such adoption
homes before submitting to Government pressure.

Some suggested this as a blackmail tactic from him
and his church. "I
don't do blackmail. I'm my own man," he claimed with conviction. "My priority is the
children," he insisted adamantly.

I would
like to come back to that remark later!

He also
discussed Tony Blair: "I haven't talked to him about his conversion. I have chatted
to him about religion. A person’s religion is a private thing."

(Blair
later converted to Catholicism in 2007).

Murphy-O’Connor also
hinted at looming retirement by saying: "To be absolutely honest I would be content
to retire. But if asked to stay on I would be content." But
to an interesting question about failure in his life, he responded: "I don't think
any failures as such. Sometimes a failure of courage."

But wait
a minute, didn't he earlier say: "My priority is the children." He did didn't he?
And somehow these five words struck a discord with me because I was further reminded
of the damaging child sex scandals of the his church that have been exposed both
in England and abroad!

In England
today the shame however is still there to touch and taste, as afflicted families struggle
to fight the consuming torment and rage of priestly abuse. (We should not forget how
nuns were also named in these sordid scandals).

Do you
remember "the sisters of mercy" episode in Ireland and what they were doing to unmarried
girls in the catholic church run laundry episode during the 1940-1960 era)?

One such
public case some years ago was of the systematic abuse by Catholic priest Michael
Hill committed over many years, even with boys in wheelchairs! Or as one father remarked
of this sordid event: "I feel livid towards him." I am sure that parent wanted to
say much more than this. Perhaps even do much more.

And all
of this was in the Catholic diocese run by the then bishop Cormac Murphy-O'Connor!

In Revelation
17, we see a woman described as "full of the names of blasphemy." I suspect this vivid
description is indeed the Roman Catholic church. And in chapter 18, a voice from heaven
is heard saying: "Come out of her my people that you receive not of her plagues."

So, if
you are a practicing Catholic or a member of the clergy then heed these final words
from the Lord Jesus Christ Himself!)

And do
you remember in recent years how two senior catholic archbishops in England were forced
to resign under a dark cloud of child molestation. (In fact this week a priest from
the Birmingham diocese will be in court accused of seven acts of sexual assault and
rape. And so it goes on and on and on!

I have
to ask in all fairness was his first priority towards the innocent children in his
pastoral care. Or did it all become an exercise of ‘damage limitation’ from him and
many others in the hierarchy of bishops when details started to leak out to the national
press. Sadly it seems the catholic church's first antecedence is to themselves and
their church, and of course its future survival.

Did Murphy-O’Connor suffer
a failure of courage in those previous days (however flimsy) as he placed wicked priests
in other parishes, thereby placing more vulnerable children in harms way?

I fear
this story is not ended yet with even more shocking details to emerge!

Oh and
the title of this article? Well some years ago on a popular radio show he was reminded
that whilst rector of the English College in Rome he certainly mixed a mean Martini.
I know little or nothing about Martini cocktails, but I did read some peculiar names
given to these potent alcoholic drinks. And one can be quite sure that were he is
now, there are no cocktails whatsoever!